Behavioral Health
Rehearse sensitive mental-health conversations safely, including asking directly about risk and responding to escalating distress.
Build Your First SimulationCompetencies addressed
- Mental status and mood assessment
- Asking directly about suicide and self-harm risk
- De-escalation of agitation
- Non-judgemental, trauma-informed communication
- Safety planning and referral
Learner level
Pre-licensure psychiatric/mental-health courses; graduate refreshers
Modality
Voice conversation with an AI patient (SimVoice), with an optional patient photo (SimPortrait) or a live, expressive avatar (Interactive).
Estimated practice time
About 15–20 minutes per encounter, plus debrief
Assessment approach
Rubric separating communication, information gathering and safety, with faculty review of the full transcript
Scenarios
Built and adapted by your faculty. A ready-made starter library for this collection is in development.
Example scenario ideas
Ideas faculty can build and adapt to local practice.
- A patient with low mood after a job loss
- A young adult with panic symptoms in the emergency department
- An agitated patient who wants to leave the ward
Every scenario includes
Use AI for repeatable practice; preserve faculty judgment for consequential assessment.